Loo makhi-mkhanya ubalaseleyo wedemokhrasi yaseMerika, uAlexis de Tocqueville waphawula ukuba amaqela ezobupolitika aseUnited States ayefana nezizwe ezisilwa.
Ngelixa oko kuyinyani ngokuqinisekileyo xa kufikwa kumalungu eqela elikwinqanaba kunye nefayile, asebenza, abile, aluma kwaye alwe nabachasi babo bezopolitiko ukuze banyuke, akunakuthethwa okufanayo nangabo bakwimigangatho ephezulu.
Esi sesinye isifundo esinokuvela kutshintsho olukhawulezileyo lweqela lase-US u-Arlen Specter, owathi, kude kube mva nje wayeyiSenator ephezulu yaseRiphabhlikhi yasePennsylvania, naphakathi kwabona basebenza ixesha elide kwiziko.
Ejongene nolonyulo oluya lusiba nzima kakhulu ekwindla, wayeka umbutho athe wabaleka waze waphumelela (njengeSenator) phantse iminyaka engama-30, kwaye waphosa iqashiso lakhe kwiqela lesininzi elichasayo (iDemocrats)
Iipundits zezopolitiko kunye neentloko ezithethayo zihambe phantse kwi-apoplectic kwiimpendulo zabo ezishushu kunye noqikelelo. "Ukuqhekeza umhlaba!", watsho omnye. "Inyikima!" watsho omnye. Ngamaxesha athile, babala iivoti zakhe kwiibhili zeDemokhrasi kunye nezindululo ezazingekabhalwa.
Inyaniso yayilula kakhulu: wayefuna ukuphumelela unyulo kwakhona, kwaye wayengenakwenza oko kwi-GOP.
Kudla ngokuthiwa i-Senate yiklabhu yosozigidi; kodwa kungaphezulu. Yenye yezona klabhu zikhethekileyo emhlabeni. Ngamadoda nabafazi abali-100 kuphela, abaziinkosana namakhosazana amagunya. Kwilizwe ngalinye lase-US, ngabantu aba-2 kuphela abanokuhlala kwi-Senate, kwaye xa sele bengenile, kunzima kakhulu ukuphulukana nonyulo. Ngenxa yokuba uSpecter wayenenkululeko ecaphukisayo, indawo yakhe yokuqala yaseRiphabhlikhi yayiza kuba phakathi kwezo zibonwa zingaqinisekanga.
URichard J. Needham uthe, โAmandla sisiyobisi abakhotyokiswa kuso abezopolitiko.
Amandla. Yiyo leyo.
U-Specter, ochithe ubomi bakhe bomntu omdala njengenkosana, akazange afune ukuyeka loo mandla amangalisayo. Kwaye utshintsho lwakhe luqinisekisa ukuba akukho mfuneko yokuba enjenjalo.
Ngokutshintsha amaqela unika iiDemocrats ivoti enye kufutshane nesininzi esingangenwa bullet - ukuya kwiivoti ezingama-60 abanokuthi ngazo baqhube itheyibhile (ecinga ukuba owayesakuba yiqhula uAl Franken angabamba inkokheli yakhe kuNorman Coleman weGOP). Ngokwenza njalo, uqinisekisa ukuba abo babefudula bengamalungu eqela lakhe abayi kuba namandla, njengoko ngaphandle kweevoti ezingama-41, abanako ukwenza ifilibuster - okanye bavale ngokufanelekileyo nawuphi na umthetho.
Ngoko ke uba lelona lungu linamandla kwelo qumrhu, kuba ivoti yakhe iba yinto ebalulekileyo.
Ubulumko obukhulu, u-Alexander Pope wathi, "Umoya weqela ... eyona nto ingcono kukuba yimpambano yabaninzi ngenxa yenzuzo yabambalwa."
UArlen Specter liQela lakhe.
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Ekuphenduleni, igqwetha elikhokelayo lika-Abu-Jamal uRobert R. Bryan uya kufaka "isikhalazo sokuphinda siphinde siviwa" kwiNkundla ePhakamileyo yase-US. Iintlanganiso ezingxamisekileyo ziye zabanjwa kwizixeko ezininzi ukulungelelanisa impendulo yengca, kwaye abantu abangaphezu kwe-3,000 batyikitye isicelo se-intanethi. kwiinzame eziququzelelwa ngabaphembeleli abachasene nesigwebo sokufa.
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